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Do Whatever it Takes to Get Wisdom

January 9, 2026 By Peter Krol

David was Solomon’s chief role model, and here’s what he taught his son.

^“Get wisdom; get insight;
Do not forget, and do not turn away from the words of my mouth.
Do not forsake her, and she will keep you;
Love her, and she will guard you.
The beginning of wisdom is this: Get wisdom,
And whatever you get, get insight.
Prize her highly, and she will exalt you;
She will honor you if you embrace her.
She will place on your head a graceful garland;
She will bestow on you a beautiful crown” (Prov 4:5-9).

David’s instruction is not all that complicated. I would paraphrase it like this:

Prov 4:5: Get wisdom!
Prov 4:6: It will guard you from trouble.
Prov 4:7: I mean it; get wisdom! Do whatever it takes!
Prov 4:8-9: You’ll be respected and honored by everyone who knows you.

It sounds like great advice for children like little Solomon who don’t carry much life baggage yet, but how can it help those who feel stuck? What would it look like to get wisdom at any cost? Jesus compares the Kingdom of Heaven to a treasure hidden in a field. A man who finds it “goes and sells all that he has and buys that field” (Matt 13:44). Malcolm X believed human rights to be worth acquiring “by any means necessary.” Solomon’s approach to wisdom is similar (without implying any violence, of course). What resources are available to you? Proverbs 4:5-9 doesn’t give many specifics, but here are some ideas from elsewhere in the Bible:

Fear the Lord (Prov 1:7). Take your need to him. Wisdom (and change) always begins here.
Hope it can change (1 Peter 1:3). Such hope is always a choice. You’re not a victim to your despair.
Resolve to pay any cost (Prov 23:23). Do you want it to change? Are you willing to risk anything? Will you give all you have to find wisdom, seek help, and make the necessary changes?
Immerse yourself in Scripture (Ps 1:1-3). What matters most is what God has to say to you. Search the Bible for answers to your questions. Learn how to study it. What time of day are you at your best? Give the Lord that time, and develop the habit of reading and studying his Word.
Engage in a community of wisdom (Heb 10:24-25). Find a good church where the Bible is taught and Jesus’ life, death, resurrection, and rescue for sinners are central. Find a mature mentor who can help you to connect the Word of God to your life.
Practice wisdom (Phil 4:9). Remember that wisdom is not just about thinking godly thoughts. It’s about living godly lives. Talk to people about what you’re learning. Ask others what they’re learning. Spend time with non-Christians and look for ways to share about Christ. As you practice these things, write down any lessons or questions that arise, and discuss them with your church or your mentor.
Do whatever it takes (2 Cor 6:1-2). What other ideas do you have? As Derek Kidner writes, “What it takes is not brains or opportunity, but decision. Do you want it? Come and get it.”[1]

[1] Kidner, Proverbs, p.67. (Disclosure: This is an affiliate link, so if you click it and buy stuff from Amazon, your purchase will help support our site without any added cost for you.)

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You’ve Got Time

January 7, 2026 By Peter Krol

Glenna Marshall makes a profound point in this piece: you’ve got enough time to read the Bible daily. Glenna required deep suffering to persuade her she couldn’t live life without God’s word. What will it take to persuade you?

Glenna timed her reading of the entire book of James, at a slow pace: 7.5 minutes. Then she went back to reread chapter one: 90 seconds.

Don’t start out with an hour of Bible reading at 5 a.m. unless this is a really, really feasible plan for you. Most of us won’t benefit from a plan like that. Not because it wouldn’t be good for us (it would be) but because if we start out too strong too quickly, we’re very likely to quit. We don’t want Bible reading for two weeks at the beginning of every year followed by months and months of spiritual malnourishment. We want Bible reading for life.

And then my favorite line of the piece:

If you have time to read this article, you have time to read your Bible.

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Stop Turning “Proverbs Aren’t Promises” Into a Proverb That Makes a Promise

December 31, 2025 By Peter Krol

It’s crazy how widespread is the counsel that “proverbs aren’t promises.” It’s ridiculously common for folks to treat it as a truism that requires no defense, only an assertion or brief explanation. And that explanation seems to require Prov 26:4-5 (or Prov 22:6) as a launching point, as though invoking “answer a fool … answer not a fool” makes the truism self-evident.

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Consider an Example

Case in point. Here is a nursing professor doing a wonderful thing for his church, seeking to encourage them to read the Scripture and dig more deeply into God’s glorious word. I trust that he serves faithfully in his role as a church elder and music coordinator. He wants to read God’s word well and help others read God’s word well. However, he falls prey to the unexamined truism that unintentionally undermines an entire book of the Bible desperately needed in our generation.

And notice that, in the process, he turns “proverbs aren’t promises” into a homemade proverb that makes a promise. This brilliant biblical poetry is now reduced to “principles” but not “promises,” whatever that actually means. But if these “principles” cannot be relied on to promise the truth to us, then, as Bruce Waltke put it, how could a psychologically well person ever trust what God says in this book?

And as a result, the truism’s effect is the opposite to its intended effect: It only motivates people not to read and study the Proverbs. Why spend my time here, when I can spend my time in a different book of the Bible that does promise something? A book that provides fully reliable truth I can bank on, and not just “principles” that are merely possible or likely but you can never be sure?

I can’t really blame this blogger, though, as he’s merely quoting a commentator. The problem is not that a few people think this way. The problem is that everybody holds to this tradition as handed down from the elders without really considering its consequences.

Notice how, right in his opening paragraph, the writer linked above contrasts proverbs with the “promise” of John 3:16. “Are these promises in the same way the John 3:16 is a promise?” He clarifies by quoting an unnamed commentator: “Proverbs are not magical words that if memorized and applied in a mechanical way automatically lead to success and happiness.” But are we to presume that John 3:16 is?

You might say, “of course not.” But please follow the logic as presented. If:

Proverbs are not promises, and
A “promise” means something is “a magical word…applied in a mechanical way” that “automatically leads to success and happiness,” and
John 3:16 contains a promise,

then John 3:16 is a magical, mechanical, and automatic word.

In other words, a person can apply John 3:16 like this: “What a great deal! God loved me (and the whole world) so much that he gave his Son! That means that if I just believe, I will never perish! I will have eternal life! I can therefore jump off a skyscraper without a parachute, or walk in front of a dump truck, and nothing bad will happen to me! I won’t perish! No believers in Christ will ever die young. Or die at all.”

Not What Promises Are

Of course that’s not how this blogger or anybody else believes John 3:16 ought to be applied. That would be a magical, mechanical, and automatic use of that promise, doing violence to what it really means and to how promises actually work in the Bible.

But nobody in their right mind treats any promise of the Bible that way. Not the promise of John 3:16. Not the promises of the Prophets. Not the promises of covenant blessings and curses in Leviticus 26 and Deuteronomy 28. Every one of those promises requires qualifications and a covenantal or cultural context to be properly understood. Just like…the sayings of Proverbs.

Therefore, when a proverb makes a promise, we should not treat that promise mechanically, either. So I agree fully with the intent of the statement that “Proverbs aren’t promises.”

But the solution to that tragically mistaken use of the Bible’s promises (magical, mechanical, automatic) is not to maintain the oft-repeated yet self-defeating claim that “proverbs aren’t promises.” If proverbs really are not promises, then that conventional proverbial saying must not be a promise, either. And if proverbs aren’t promises, there is little reason to dive deeply into the book of Proverbs to mature as a person or society. And so we continue suffering our cultural and generational folly, experiencing the covenantal consequences of what God promised in the book of Proverbs. “When the righteous triumph, there is great glory, but when the wicked rise, people hide themselves” (Prov 28:12).

Can we please instead find the courage to acknowledge that some proverbs are, in fact, promises? Let’s instruct people that the Bible’s promises are not magical, mechanical, or automatic. But let’s also euthanize the false and confusing reflex that communicates that, because proverbs are not mechanical, they are not “promises.” Stating the matter that way has only misled people and created worse problems than those we attempted to solve.

For further defense of this thesis, please check out “Why ‘Proverbs Aren’t Promises’ is Still Misleading.”

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10. Details of the OIA Method

This post serves as a table of contents to Peter’s series on how to study the Bible. It pretty much explains why this blog exists, so we’re glad it gets a lot of pageviews, even though it only reappeared on this list last year for the first time since 2020.

9. My Favorite Way to Read the New Testament

The “way” discussed in this post is not about finding time in your schedule, or deciding on a version of the Bible. The “way” is a reading plan, subdividing the New Testament into four tracks modeled after the four gospels. Read Matthew along with the Jewish epistles (James and Hebrews). Read Mark along with Peter’s epistles (since Peter was Mark’s chief source). Read Luke and Acts along with Paul’s epistles (since Luke was a companion of Paul’s). And read John along with John’s epistles and Revelation. This reading plan highlights what is distinct about each gospel, demonstrating the fulness of the kingdom Jesus brought to earth. This 2015 post held on to its #9 spot from last year.

8. Summary of the OIA Method

Just as the title says, this post summarizes the OIA method we aim to teach. It’s basically the reason this blog exists, so we’re glad it gets a lot of page views. This is down from #5 last year.

7. What Should We Make of the Massive Repetition of Tabernacle Details in Exodus?

Sometimes people fear studying or teaching through the book of Exodus because they fear they won’t know what to do with all the tabernacle details. And then what do you do when nearly every detail is repeated? What a marvelous opportunity to strengthen our observation skills! This 2018 post was the third most-viewed post written that year, but then faded into mild obscurity until regaining popularity two years ago and holding strong ever since.

6. Top 10 OT Books Quoted in NT

This post was #10 for the last few years before rising to #4 last year. Though it comes from a series that analyzes not only books but also chapters and verses, this list of most-quoted books always seems to be one of the most popular. A companion piece from within that research series also shows up next on the list.

5. Top 11 OT Verses Quoted in the NT

One of the surprises this year was the re-emergence of this post on this list. The top books has been on the list forever. And the list of books not quoted in the NT usually shows up on the list. But this post on the most quoted verses was among the ten most popular posts from the year of its publication (2013) until 2017 before disappearing. This year, however it’s back. But if you’re interested in an exhaustive list of OT passages directly quoted in the NT, then you’ll be interested in the whole series of posts I wrote on it, along with the compiled spreadsheet.

4. 10 Truths About the Holy Spirit from Romans 8

The first of two posts to debut on this top 10 list. Written in 2021, this post simply observes how much one of the Bible’s most famous chapters has to say about the Holy Spirit. Romans 8 uses the word “spirit” more times than any other chapter of the Bible. Ryan compiled a list of 10 truths about God’s Spirit. We trust it might encourage you as much as it encouraged him.

3. Context Matters: You Have Heard That it was Said…But I Say to You

This 2018 post was #9 on this list in 2020, but rose to #3 in 2021 and remained in that position until hitting #2 last year and now dropping to #3. This post examines the series of contrasts in Jesus’ Sermon on the Mount to determine, from the context, what Jesus was arguing against. Hint: It wasn’t the Old Testament Law.

2. Why Elihu is So Mysterious

The popularity of this 2015 post (republished in 2021) continues to surprise us. We really cannot explain why it has been so popular, but if you haven’t read it, you must really be missing out! Elihu is that mysterious fourth friend in the book of Job. If you even knew he existed, chances are you’ve skipped his speeches entirely. This post is Peter’s attempt to explain Elihu’s role in the drama of the play of Job, which is not the same as Job’s first three friends. This post was #3 in 2017, but since then has alternated between the #1 and #2 slots.

1. Overlooked Details of the Red Sea Crossing

The crossing of the Red Sea is one of the most memorable and cinematic events recorded in the Bible. This brief section of history has been captured in several films as well as in thousands of Sunday school lessons and coloring pages. Yet the literary account of it in Exodus 14 is a masterpiece of writing. In this post, Ryan covers four important details that generally don’t get much attention when the story is retold, and he then explains what difference those details make to the meaning of the story. This 2023 post makes its debut on the top 10 list this year, in a big way. For the second half of the year, this post began garnering about 30% more views per month than the previously most popular post (Why Elihu is So Mysterious).

Previous years’ lists: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013

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Reading Challenge Reminder

December 24, 2025 By Peter Krol

Don’t forget we’ve got a Bible reading challenge underway. There’s still time to finish reading the entire Bible within 90 days, and you could enter to win a premium book binding (generously provided by the good people at Pro Libris Rebinding), or an additional prize package.

Reading must be completed within 90 days, and by March 31. See this post for the complete rules. Once you’ve completed your reading, you may enter the drawing with this form.

Entries that do not meet the guidelines (for example, reading period longer than 90 days, reading period is outside the allowable dates, or form is submitted before you finished reading) will not be counted in the drawing.

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10. Announcing the 2026 Bible Reading Challenge

This year’s Bible reading challenge is underway. Maybe this is your year to read the entire Bible in 90 days. You could win a premier book rebinding as a result. See the announcement for the official rules.

9. Wisdom in Disappointment

This year, I’ve continued revising and editing an old blog series on Proverbs 1-9. This post kicks off the study of Proverbs 3:1-12, which is one of those key texts where it’s crucial to understand how misleading is the conventional wisdom that “proverbs aren’t promises.”

8. Context Matters: The Lord’s Prayer

The rest of this list belongs almost exclusively to Ryan, who provided (and republished) much wonderful content this year. This first piece on the list considers that most famous of prayers in light of the context within which it was given. The Lord’s Prayer is an illustration of what it looks like to pray to a heavenly Father who knows what you need before you ask him. It is an example of how to pray in secret, how not to practice your righteousness before men, and how to seek reward from God. And it is a reminder that our relationship with God cannot be divorced from our relationship with other people.

And if you enjoy Ryan’s writing—as I sure do—you should also check out the Substack newsletter he just launched this year as well.

7. No Good Tree Bears Bad Fruit

You’ve probably heard this; it’s one of Jesus’ most famous metaphors. But can you explain what it means? If your answer is not “do you mean the Matthew 7 version or the Luke 6 version,” then you don’t really understand it! You’re in danger of reading one of those into the other text and missing the point.

6. Three Important Contexts for Bible Study

Your Bible study won’t have much teeth without consideration of the context. But which context? Because there are a few different kinds that all should be considered. This post tackles historical, literary, and personal. That doesn’t even exhaust the categories, but will certainly get you started in the right direction.

5. Reading the Bible for the First Time

In this masterful post, Ryan considers what you might want to say to a friend who wants to start reading the Bible for the first time. In our generation, such people are all around us. Most have no basic understanding of the facts or structure of the Bible. This brief post will help you get them started quickly.

4. Context Matters: Count the Cost

Before diving into this post, perhaps you should count the cost of shaking off dusty old metaphors. In other words, perhaps we shouldn’t just toss our Christianese phrases around so much that they lose their meaning. That way, when we come upon them in the Scripture, we can hear them as the author intended. Have you counted the cost of following Jesus? There is no discount, and the bill is extreme. But Jesus supplies what you lack and gives joy along the path.

3. What We Miss When We Skip the Prophets

Ryan enjoys motivating people to give attention to the obscure parts of the Bible. In this post, he explains how the New Testament makes constant use of the prophets to explain what Jesus has now done for his people. Skip them, and you might not really understand. For insight into other books you wouldn’t want to skip, see: Leviticus, Ezra, Nehemiah, Lamentations, and Numbers.

2. Just Do Nothing, and You’ll Ruin Everything

When people think that “proverbs aren’t promises,” they lose interest in the book of Proverbs. Why study a book that says stuff you can’t really bank on? But come to see the book rightly, and it’s treasures pay quickly and often. Such as a consideration of this rather obscure passage in Proverbs 1:20-21 (the prelude to the section of Prov 1:20-35). The point is simple: Wisdom is available. It is everywhere. We think we can’t change. We believe no one understands us. We assume we’re on our own. However, we’re surrounded by people with decent advice on important topics. We have no excuse for remaining immature.

1. Reading the Bible for the Ten Thousandth Time

Ryan wrote this post as a companion to #5 on this list. This one is not just for your “friend,” but for you who have grown familiar with the Bible. Familiar enough that the glow of it has long since faded. Ryan provides five great ideas to help you stave off your Bible weariness, and he reminds you that you never outgrown your need for the help of God’s Holy Spirit.

Previous years’ top tens: 2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017

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Identifying Longer Poems in the Body of Proverbs

December 17, 2025 By Peter Krol

Paul Overland has a fascinating piece on how to detect the poetic structure of Proverbs. I’ve written a full study of Proverbs 1-9, but Overland draws lessons from the structural markers in 1-9 and applies them to discern longer poems in chapters 10-29 as well.

For example, the sage uses an inclusio (repeated bookends) to mark the beginning and end of a poem in Proverbs 4:20-27. The NIV captures the repetition of “turn your ear” (Prov 4:20) and “do not turn” (Prov 4:27). In a similar way, the inclusio of “comes only to poverty” may mark the beginning and end of a larger unit in Prov 21:5-22:16.

Overland provides many specific tools to help you recognize boundary markers of poetic units within the book. And he offers the following benefits to engaging in this work:

Poems reveal richer meaning to their single sayings
We discover messages emerging from entire poems or lectures
Adjacent poems cluster together to deliver a cumulative lesson
A book-wide curriculum of wisdom training comes into view

The book of Proverbs is a tremendous gift from God to help us know him and grow up into maturity in our thinking, our piety, and our social progress. In today’s societies, we can easily witness the fruit of neglecting such wisdom from God. And Overland’s article will provide much stimulating help with considering just how this book can train us further in God’s wisdom.

Check it out!

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Using AI for Bible Study Misses the Point of Bible Study

December 15, 2025 By Ryan Higginbottom

Large language models (LLMs) have been making big waves for years. Their use has been embraced with open arms and promoted to the tune of billions of dollars.

For Christians who are convinced that Bible intake is good and healthy, the promises of AI agents are loud and potentially persuasive. If LLMs can make work and correspondence easier, why not Bible study? It would be the work of seconds to query an AI chatbot and ask for help studying the Bible.

As the headline to this article (hopefully) makes clear, I urge you to reconsider. If you’re leaning on an LLM for Bible study, you might have forgotten why we study the Bible.

Personal Study

If Bible study were just about information, this website would not exist. Instead, we could recommend good Bible commentaries and call it a day.

Many picture the outcome of Bible study as a tidy summary of a chapter or passage of Scripture. They primarily think of understanding as the goal. And while understanding is essential to Bible study, stopping at this stage is like heading off to work in your underwear—a good start, yes, but far from complete.

The goal of Bible study is to glorify God by loving him and our neighbors. In other words, we study the Bible so that we might be transformed (Hebrews 4:12, Romans 12:1-2).

In OIA Bible study, the O (observation) and I (interpretation) steps are primarily intellectual. The A (application) step is often the hardest because it is personal. It requires repentance, faith, and change.

The Holy Spirit changes Christians. One of the major ways this happens is by studying and applying the Scriptures (Psalm 19:7-11).

LLMs may do a passable job summarizing a Bible passage. But they are unlikely to get at the main point, and they cannot, by definition, help us any further.

Let’s be clear. Artificial intelligence cannot transform you into the image of Christ.

Bible study should produce new and renewed people, not merely people who are smarter or more informed. This happens in application, but observation and interpretation are not incidental. The Scriptures will land on us with their proper weight and force when our hands are dirty. We are far better equipped to apply a passage after studying it ourselves instead of reading a summary. What is more nutritious to body and soul, a warmed-up Italian frozen dinner or a lasagna prepared with love in the kitchen?

The process of studying the Bible is the entire point of studying the Bible. When we advocate for ordinary Christians to study the Bible, we are not claiming the world needs more summaries or commentaries on Scripture. Instead, we insist that the world needs more people who have studied and been changed by the Bible.

Leading Bible Studies

My co-blogger Peter has written about his concern with the presence of AI in Logos Bible software. I am also troubled by this development.

Moving from personal Bible study to leading a Bible study is challenging, and writing good questions is especially hard. I understand the impulse to offload this task.

However, just like with personal study, the process is part of the point. The skills of asking questions and mapping the logical steps toward the main point of a passage are crucial for leaders. We miss out on this development when we look to an LLM for direction. (The same is true when we consult other pre-packaged Bible study curricula.)

There’s another danger when using AI for Bible study group preparation. Small groups need their leaders to blaze the trail of change and give a preview of the terrain. Transformed people point the way to transformation.

Not that everyone will have the same applications! But a leader who is being transformed shows group members that change is desirable, possible, and a natural outcome of Bible study. The specific applications a leader shares will prompt others to apply the text specifically.

Further, no Bible study aid knows your group members like you do. Ideally, our questions and comments will be specific to the people in our group. LLMs are just next-word prediction engines; they don’t know any humans, much less the ones you are called to love.

A Place for AI

I am neither a prophet nor the son of a prophet, but I suspect there may be responsible, wise uses of artificial intelligence that emerge over the next months and years. For now, I will approach AI with what I hope is healthy skepticism. I fear that as a people we are handing too many character-shaping, skill-building tasks over to LLMs in the name of efficiency.

Christians are not called primarily to be efficient. We are called to be holy and to point others toward the One who can make them holy. When this involves studying God’s word, we lean on artificial intelligence agents to the detriment of our souls and the souls of our neighbors and friends.

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Wisdom is Infectious, Not Contagious

December 12, 2025 By Peter Krol

There’s hope that anything can change. But first you must get wisdom.

Hear, O sons, a father’s instruction,
And be attentive, that you may gain insight,
For I give you good precepts;
Do not forsake my teaching.
When I was a son with my father,
Tender, the only one in the sight of my mother,
He taught me
And said to me,
“Let your heart hold fast my words;
Keep my commandments, and live” (Prov 4:1-4).

We can tell Solomon wants to get our attention because the first verse says, “be attentive,” and because it begins with “Hear, O sons,” rather than the usual “Hear, my son” (Prov 1:8). Would you like to get unstuck? Pay attention to what comes next.

After Solomon exhorts the reader to hear his instruction, he backs up the exhortation with a bit of autobiography. We’re transported back to the days when little Shlomo sat by the hearth and heard his father David talk about life. The most memorable advice was this: Hold on to my words (Prov 4:4) and get wisdom (Prov 4:5). This little story is noteworthy for at least two reasons.

1. It shows that the reason Solomon asked God for wisdom (1 Kings 3:5-9) was because Papa David told him to.

It’s easy to think Solomon’s request came out of nowhere, as though he had a flash of genius that just happened to coincide with the night when God made him the offer of a lifetime. No, instead, as we learn here, David had trained Solomon to do whatever it might take to get wisdom. Solomon was ready to ask God for it. Like Solomon, we must be taught to love and seek wisdom; it doesn’t happen naturally. Wisdom is an acquired taste, cultivated by people who have good examples to follow.

2. It implies that, if we want to inspire others to love wisdom, we must live it out and pass it on, just as David did for Solomon.

I’m not saying that David was perfect. He influenced his son both for good (loving wisdom) and ill (loving too many women). Solomon’s chief memory, however, was of his father’s quest for wisdom. It inspired him deeply.

To influence others, we, too, must quest for wisdom. Love for wisdom is infectious, not contagious. In other words, it doesn’t catch very easily; it requires close personal contact to be transmitted. For instance, parents ought to practice what they preach; they should be both open to learning and quick to ask forgiveness when they sin against their children. Leaders ought to tell tasteful stories about themselves to illustrate key ideas; people generally won’t get the point until they can see how it has personally affected the teacher. To save us, God didn’t hand over a philosophy or rulebook. He became a man and stood in our place, showing us in the process how to live wisely.

The first step to getting unstuck is to find good models who inspire you with hope and point you to Jesus as your wisdom. If you are a leader of any sort, your words will never be enough; you must visibly demonstrate the wisdom you seek to impart.

This post was first published in 2013 and is part of a series walking through Proverbs 1-9.

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Do Whatever it Takes to Get Wisdom

You’ve Got Time

Top 10 Posts Published in 2015

Stop Turning “Proverbs Aren’t Promises” Into a Proverb That Makes a Promise

Consider an Example

Not What Promises Are

Top 10 Posts of 2025

10. Details of the OIA Method

9. My Favorite Way to Read the New Testament

8. Summary of the OIA Method

7. What Should We Make of the Massive Repetition of Tabernacle Details in Exodus?

6. Top 10 OT Books Quoted in NT

5. Top 11 OT Verses Quoted in the NT

4. 10 Truths About the Holy Spirit from Romans 8

3. Context Matters: You Have Heard That it was Said…But I Say to You

2. Why Elihu is So Mysterious

1. Overlooked Details of the Red Sea Crossing

Reading Challenge Reminder

Top 10 Posts of 2025—Published in 2025

10. Announcing the 2026 Bible Reading Challenge

9. Wisdom in Disappointment

8. Context Matters: The Lord’s Prayer

7. No Good Tree Bears Bad Fruit

6. Three Important Contexts for Bible Study

5. Reading the Bible for the First Time

4. Context Matters: Count the Cost

3. What We Miss When We Skip the Prophets

2. Just Do Nothing, and You’ll Ruin Everything

1. Reading the Bible for the Ten Thousandth Time

Identifying Longer Poems in the Body of Proverbs

Using AI for Bible Study Misses the Point of Bible Study

Personal Study

Leading Bible Studies

A Place for AI

Wisdom is Infectious, Not Contagious